In fact I wrote a very congratulatory letter to Eventide some years ago and they later informed me that the chief designer kept it framed above his desk. Make conceptcards for a conncctionist approach to writing: SOI`TWARELONG ARM RO BO TW ET INVISIBLE BOMB. #eno

Perhaps the sense of people’s listening capacity is changed to me these things sound empty but I guess with the right mind they’d sound electric. I should have left too. #eno

Dave Stewart called inviting me over at 12. Received tape from Laurie. #eno

Stomach slightly dubious about last night’s beerwineblack risotto and antipasto dinner. Michael Woolcock Pav’s producer from Decca and later Edge Bono and Gavin plus Nick Angel. #eno

What a persuader she is. At the purely electronic level there are very few molecules involved and their behaviour is amplified. #eno

I wanted to The scheme`s Annual that artists specialize in inventing worlds for them Competition and Exhibition selves and thus the activity is especially relevant to who’ve had their world taken away from them. Discomfort in my shoulder. #eno

Wrote invitation for Pagan Fun Wear and note for Anthea’s Croatia visit. Is too urrly Brian. #eno

Culture crucibles: Vienna 18901935; Berlin 192035; New York 195080; San Francisco 196075; 1980present. On Music Shop a new piece with a stunningly dark long-legged loping bass line. #eno

Danton and Rob working very long days regularly 14 hours. Just stop every 20 paces and take a photo in any direction. #eno

Nearby a broken old van Afro Caribbean Centresits conked out in a layby. I tried to paint a picture but I couldn’t get it right the colours were too bright. #eno

Working all day on Koan pieces. A few minutes later he returned with another young rifleman and a very large and grinningly chic looking sergeant major type. #eno

Sisyrinchium striatumdrawn by Darla on her birthday. The text was by Tristan Tzara. #eno

Bono and Adam so kind and hospitable to J. At Pixelpark home of the ROMmakers I gave a speech and really liked those people. #eno

Long enthusiastic description of record the best thing I’ve done in 15 yearsall things to all men etc. Now some time alone here. #eno

For Damien’s piece: gloves drawing pins newspaper or polythene sheet sheets of card Spraymount trestle bottles Tape for coat I light Twinks Fell off bike! Hurt ribs Damien couldn’t make it. On the way out of the hotel with Bono and Edge a huge crowd of Italian fans. #eno

Worked in garden all morning. We started today on the new song Spaceboy and I added a bass sax thing. #eno

Film is modern opera with all its conceit and self-importance. Made him lie down and sleep. #eno

Perhaps you only need one goodquality element in all that which we have with Laurie’s voice. He’s so unexpectedly cordial chatty. #eno

Got a wet foot picking up a lovely green palmsized strokingstone from the ocean. It makes me think of Russian academic painting the kind of stuff produced by the ArtistsUnion members or Left Hankcry. #eno

This is clearly absurd. And it should be possible to say that one of those hidden features of particular interest to you should become unhidden and thereafter be presented as a main feature. #eno

How not to look dreadful? Don’t be predatory. I can’t imagine the Canadians talking about Good Government with capital whereas in America even the Free Market gets that treatment. #eno

Later looking at a map I low do they know where everything is? Bumped into Sacirbey and Mabel at Frankfurt airport he fresh from the peace talks in New York. It’s like when you meet someone you’ve only ever seen in uniform. #eno

This is a big gamble. Reading Being Digital. #eno

Larry very friendly these days he’s a good atmosphere in the room. What a lovely couple add to the very short list Successful marriages’. #eno

And I to Chelsea Arts Club for dinner with Patrick Hughes. Collective noun: an insulation of books. #eno

The dinner at the long table was nice. In the evening to Towering Inferno at Q E ll with John and Roz Preston Rolf and Nicky his latest flame what she don’t know yet’. #eno

Actually Tony Crean and 1 made a good team: he’s funny and self-deprecating and all soul and I can handle the information part. I wonder what made her say that? Another interview about Ambient today. #eno

Photoshop follow Time melody. I said I thought this was bccausc people don’t trust what comcs easily to them. #eno

Putting together Finch stuff. Then I sat in the shop of Fayez of the six languages and he told me how he liked the bodies of Nubian girls and got me some Malven tea and plied me with cigarettes. #eno

Funny crowd outworldlying each other. His delivery of lines like that is so perfect in tone and timing that I weep with laughter. #eno

Dinner in evening with Peter and Joyce Rudge Dave Hates and Amira his Bosnian fiancee at I j I`amiglia. Rain and clouds. #eno

Room with columns and arrows. Yes! they agree. #eno

I’m surprised I feel so strongly about this and thrilled as often to find myself to have been wrong. Massage with Leigh gift from A. #eno

And a vacuum is defined as when I’m not singing’. He said But it’s my job and didn’t. #eno

Nightmare about falling off a cliff screaming into the wind clinging on to a tiny ledge with elbows and fingertips knowing no one above including Anton Corbijn would hear me knowing 1 must soon fall and crash on the rocks below. Gut I fear this messiness and density and cloudedness. #eno

In the car home B. Reading The Transformation of War. #eno

Unfortunately people don’t recognize the importance of call and response. Saw A. #eno

One of the frustrations of life is never finding 131 precisely the pornography you want. The gentle silence of a bicycle on a warm country day. #eno

Was ecstatic and we stayed for a good hour walking round and round. In fact the result was very good unlike typical H. #eno

Man he can talk Dublin must be dense with three-legged donkeys. Ali tried to persuade me to stay. #eno

Ira Oleg Russell Rolf Hannah Camilla. Watching him tune it to just the right pitch of sincerity and parody was one of the most fascinating things I’ve ever seen in a studio. #eno

Good man to work with. Am I slightly allergic to milk? Oblique Strategizing I have far too many about 145. #eno

Also watched a completely nutty religious character a South African televangelist who could probably turn the pope to atheism. `l`he idea was to look at some sites for an installation. #eno

David admired my very 6H 1985 selfportrait the one that Diego hindlegoffadonkey style talked me out of. We all think that a U2Eno record couldn’t be discreetly released would be hyped by stores as the next U2 record’. #eno

Brief summing up of the work to date with the band and then on to the theatre with Lin and John and Roz Preston Stoppard’s Indian Ink. A long swim this morning. #eno

Then I played the JAMES Laid album which is so beautiful and was sadly a bit overlooked here. Watched Coco Chanel deconstruction with Anthea. #eno

A signal sent through a medium interacts with it in complex ways and some of the information being sent breaks up into noise. Perhaps there arc societies of atavism societies of empathy. #eno

But almost no sustained attention today. I realize that what I’m talking about is a rule moire’: patterns of rule interactions created by overlays of probabilistic decision matrices. #eno

Funny conversation about films. She told me that a farmer used to slip an egg through the fence of the camp for her. #eno

No trace of acetone smell left. I said That’s a long time when you’re. #eno